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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 07:19:13 JST Børge

   The new #Gnome background apps feature is nice, except that I still can't turn off the AppIndicator extension, because if I do #qBittorrent suddenly has some sort of non-existent window that shows up in Activities and the window switcher, so the feature is actually totally useless for me…? Is this a bug just with qBt or is the feature just not finished yet…?

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 20:01:58 JST Børge

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     • Jeff Fortin T.

     @nekohayo Thank you, appreciate the information! But if the background apps feature demands that every single application implements some specific stuff, while the extensions that gives you the "good, old" systray don't demand that and just works, then I'm afraid we'll never be able to stop using those extensions. #Gnome

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     Jeff Fortin T. (nekohayo@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 20:01:59 JST Jeff Fortin T.

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     @forteller I doubt they ever implemented the FreeDesktop background portal, nobody even made the request: https://github.com/search?q=repo:qbittorrent/qBittorrent+background+portal

     In comparison, people have made such requests for other apps, from what I can see:
     * https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/5484
     * https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Fragments/-/issues/30#note_1909051

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 04:44:21 JST Børge

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     • Jeff Fortin T.

     @nekohayo Thanks again. I've created an issue now. Hope it gets across the most important parts. Would appreciate a thumbs up :) https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/22304

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     Jeff Fortin T. (nekohayo@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 04:44:22 JST Jeff Fortin T.

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     @forteller The new system does a whole lot more than an icon on a panel. And it is likely to do even more in the future: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/whiteboards/-/issues/272

     Sorry that we don't want to stick to Windows 95's limitations, but this is no different than apps being expected to respect the modern light/dark mode standard, the XDG user directories standard, the screensharing/webcam/microphone portals, the power management inhibition API, etc.
     They need to get on with the programme. File tickets on those apps.